The Stevie Ray Vaughan Experience
Fraublendy
March 18, 2001

Hello!

I guess I can say I grew up listening to Stevie Ray Vaughn, I was in High School in New Jersey and he was big at the time. One of my best friends was a HUGE fan, and he bought a hat just like Stevie's. My friend Mark is a great guitar player, and Stevie was a major influence on him, in fact Mark was not a blues fan at all, he was one of those guys that just could not relate, but somehow Stevie really got to him. The day we found out he died, Mark was in complete shock and it really hit him hard.

I liked listening to him then, but fast forwarding past the 18yr old girl and now looking at the almost 30yr old woman, who had seen too many years filled with hard times and already a divorcee and a single mom, well when I heard "Cold Shot" on the radio, while driving home one late night, that's when it all hit home.

I ran out to the record store the next day, I did not know which CD to get first, so I bought a greatest hits CD and jumped in my truck and quickly put in the CD player. I listened to every song and I was totally entranced by this man's voice. I cannot explain it without sounding like an idiot, but I hung on every word and every emotion. Soon, the VH1 Behind The Music was aired and I sat and watched and by the end of the show, I was balling. There are few people in this world that I would share my life with, and despite all the times I felt like life kicked in me in the butt hard, I pulled myself up and kept going, and when I put that CD on I know that I'm not alone, and there is a light and the end of the tunnel, because someone got there and came back to tell me about it. So when those sunny days come and you walk out on the front step and take a deep breath, and realize. "Hey, I made it," sometimes there can be beauty in pain, because it made you who you are today, and that my friends, is what Stevie Ray Vaughn gave to me. Thanks Stevie, there will never be another one like you but I know your spirit will always be with us.

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